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For
NEITHER
See
†
, p. 1
For
NEITHER AT ANY TIME,
Luke 15:29
, see
NEVER
For
NEPHEWS
see
GRANDCHILDREN
NEST
(
)
, 2682), properly “an encamping, taking up one’s
quarters,” then, “a lodging, abode” (
, “down over,”
, “a tent”), is used of birds’
“nests” in Matt. 8:20 and Luke 9:58.¶ In the Sept., 1 Chron. 28:2, “the building”; Ezek.
37:27, “(My) tabernacle.”¶
The word
, signifying “a brood,” Luke 13:34, used in the Sept. to denote a
“nest,” e.g., in Deut. 22:6; 32:11, signifies the actual receptacle built by birds in which to
lay their eggs (having special reference to the prospective brood); but the word
, used by the Lord, denotes “a resting or roosting place.” This lends force to
His comparison. Not only was He without a home, He had not even a lodging place (cf.
, “to lodge,” e.g., Matt. 13:32; Acts 2:26,
RV
marg., “shall tabernacle”; see
LODGE
).
NET
1.
(
&
$
, 293), lit., “something thrown around” (
,
“around,”
, “to throw”), denotes “a casting net,” a somewhat small “net,” cast over
the shoulder, spreading out in a circle and made to sink by weights, Matt. 4:18 (in some
mss. in Mark 1:16: the best have the verb
alone).¶
2.
$
(
&
, 1350), a general term for a “net” (from an old verb
, “to
cast”: akin to
, “a quoit”), occurs in Matt. 4:20-21; Mark 1:18-19; Luke 5:2, 4-6;
John 21:6, 8, 11 (twice).¶ In the Sept. it was used for a “net” for catching birds, Prov.
1:17, in other ways, e.g., figuratively of a snare, Job 18:8; Prov. 29:5.
3.
(
)
, 4522) denotes “a dragnet, a seine”; two modes were employed
with this, either by its being let down into the water and drawn together in a narrowing
circle, and then into the boat, or as a semicircle drawn to the shore, Matt. 13:47, where
Nos. 1 and 2 would not have suited so well. The Greek historian Herodotus uses the
corresponding verb
$
of a device by which the Persians are said to have cleared a
conquered island of its inhabitants.¶
NEVER
1.
$
(
' !
, 3763), from
$
, “not even,” and
, “at any time,” is used
in definite negative statements, e.g., Matt. 7:23; 1 Cor. 13:8; Heb. 10:1, 11, or questions,
e.g., Matt. 21:16, 42; in Luke 15:29 (1st part),
RV
, “never” (
KJV
, “neither … at any
time”);
KJV
and
RV
, “never” (2nd part).
†
Indicates that the word referred to (preposition, conjunction, or particle) is not dealt
with in this volume.